Four people were found dead Tuesday and may have been killed in a basement apartment in New York’s capital region, police said.

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A property manager made the grisly discovery at a home in Troy, a city near Albany, police Capt. Daniel DeWolf said.

Troy police Chief John Tedesco said the victims were an 11-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl and two adult women, ages 22 and 36. Authorities are not releasing their identities pending notification of relatives.

The women were in a relationship, Tedesco said, and the children belonged to one of the women, the chief said. Autopsies were being performed Wednesday.

"Being in this business for almost 42 years, I can't describe the savagery of a person like this. I don't know of a word that can say it," Tedesco said at a news conference.

Authorities said the incident was not believed to be random and that they did not think there was any further danger to the community.

“It’s horrible. Terrible. Sad — sad especially at this time of year,” DeWolf said. “We’re going to do everything we can to look into this and get to the bottom of what happened here.”

Officers swarmed the street and cordoned off the area around the home in the Lansingburgh neighborhood, which runs along the Hudson River in Troy, a city of about 50,000 people.

Jason Fenton has lived across from the home for about two decades. He told reporters he was horrified by what had happened in what he called a quiet neighborhood of families who are “trying to make Troy better, and they’re trying to make this capital region better.”

Troy is home to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, though it’s miles away from the crime scene. The city also is known for the Louis Comfort Tiffany stained-glass windows that grace multiple churches and buildings from Troy’s industrial heyday in the late 1800s and early 1900s.